From Defended Settlements to Fortified Strongholds: Responses to Gunpowder in the Early Modern Deccan

Sohoni, Pushkar

doi:10.1080/02666030.2015.1008818

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“…22). Modern warfare and the increasing use of artillery influenced the creation of hilltop forts (Sohoni, 2015) requiring a rethinking of strategic water control therein. Access to water is more complicated and difficult on these steep peaks.…”

Section: Water Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Naldurg Fort, Deccan, India: Dam, Fortifications, Palace

Morelle¹

2022

J. Mater. Cult. Muslim World

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The introduction of new water supply techniques in the Deccan region of India helped make water a crucial factor in local warfare. Improved water supply and conservation influenced military networks, especially at sites located on the strategic frontiers between local polities. Water management also served residential complexes within fortified sites and agricultural improvements in the surrounding arid landscape. This survey of the Naldurg Fort, overlooking a lofty gorge on the Bhima River in the modern state of Maharashtra, examines how builders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dammed available water to service a strategic frontier military garrison, thereby creating a refreshing environment for a pleasure palace and garden. All photographs and the survey are by Nicolas Morelle.

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Section: Water Planningmentioning

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Naldurg Fort, Deccan, India: Dam, Fortifications, Palace

Morelle¹

2022

J. Mater. Cult. Muslim World

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“…For example, the Bahmani sultanate based in Gulbarga broke the region into four territories centered in Ahmednagar, Daulatabad, Sholapur, andBijapur (1350-1500 CE). Subsequently, cities were created outside but not very far away from defensive citadels (Sohoni, 2015c).…”

Section: Use Of Fluvial Landforms In the Godavari Basin During The Samentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Mughal governor Khan Jahan Bahadur built protective basalt stone walls and purportedly 52 (a symbolically significant number) gates around the city (Sohoni, 2015a(Sohoni, , 2015b. Sohoni (2015c) noted that by this point, city gates and walls had more administrative than defensive significance, due to advances in artillery power vis-à-vis military architecture and to Mughal open field vis-à-vis urban warfare.…”

Section: Use Of Fluvial Landforms In the Godavari Basin During The Samentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Shahji's uncertain position in the Bijapur court coupled with hostile Mughal attacks led Shivaji and his mother to take refuge and sometimes flee from one butte fortress like Shivneri to another in the Sahyadri range during his childhood. Sohoni (2015c) showed how this shift in settlement strategy from cities to fortified hilltops also withstood increasing artillery power of the larger Sultanate and Mughal empires.…”

Section: Use Of Fluvial Landforms In the Godavari Basin During The Samentioning

confidence: 99%

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